A 17-year-old was arrested yesterday for carrying a loaded gun. The teen was charged with criminal possession of a weapon after police approached him near Sayres Avenue and 167th Street when they saw him adjust his waistband. He told cops he was carrying a gun. The plain clothes police searched the teen and found a [...]
A 19-year-veteran of the NYPD who was reportedly once assigned to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s security detail has been convicted of attempted murder. “This is truly a sad day for everyone when a police officer is convicted of breaking the very laws he had sworn to uphold. But in the pursuit of justice, nobody is above [...]
Police are looking for a man who stole cash from the basement change machines of 13 different Queens apartment buildings. The burglaries occurred between April 18 and May 20 in the Forest Hills, Rego Park, Woodside and East Elmhurst sections of the borough, said officials. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at [...]
Police are looking for a trio of subway dancers who allegedly assaulted a passenger aboard a train in Queens. The 28-year-old victim was on a Manhattan bound F train around 7:20 p.m. on May 7 when he got into a verbal argument with three men police describe as “dance show train performers.” As the train [...]
BY CRISTABELLE TUMOLA AND ANGY ALTAMIRANO Three men have been arrested for kidnapping a man off a Jackson Heights street in broad daylight and holding him in a warehouse for a month in a $3 million ransom attempt, the district attorney’s office said Wednesday. Christian Acuna, 35, of Corona, Dennis Alves, 32, of East Elmhurst, and Eduardo [...]
A Brooklyn man accused of attempted murder tried to turn the tables on his victim last year with the aid of his teen son, and is now facing up to seven years in prison. Hipolito Rodriguez, 38, and his son, Jordan Rodriguez, 19 were indicted on Tuesday for allegedly trying to implicate the victim for [...]
What community leaders are calling a “senseless act of violence” has left a 14-year-old girl dead, a family devastated and a neighborhood outraged. D’aja “Asia” Robinson was shot and killed on Saturday aboard a Q6 bus near Sutphin Boulevard and Rockaway Boulevard. Robinson was on her way from a sweet 16 birthday party when a [...]
A Queens middle school teacher charged with statutory rape has pleaded guilty and is expected to be sentenced to six months in jail as part of a plea deal, officials said. Daniel Reilly, 36, admitted to having sex multiple times at his Forest Hills home with a 14-year-old girl he used to teach, said District [...]
Officials investigating a stash house in Corona busted three drug traffickers and seized more than $2 million in heroin and crystal meth, the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office announced. Miguel Mercado-Guelen, 33, of Queens, Henry Nunez 38, of Brooklyn, and Diego Estevez, 39, of Connecticut, have been indicted on drug and conspiracy charges. On April 9, [...]
Police Officer Frank Calafiore was honored as the 106th Precinct Community Council’s May Cop of the Month. Calafiore, part of the anti-crime unit, was cited for the April 11 arrest of a suspect and for recovering narcotics and a loaded firearm. The suspect, 18, followed a woman to her South Ozone Park home and pointed [...]
